Jessica Schaefer
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70 appearances
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first heard Apr 2021
last heard Apr 2021
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There's three factors that have remained the top three factors, I believe, for the past three years.
So the first thing that's important to them is culture.
They want to work for an organization that they like to work for, that they feel valued and appreciated, and that has a culture of retaining its people.
they really are prioritizing location as the second biggest factor you know some of that may be that they're looking to go into a new market and so maybe they want to be in denver when they're in chicago or new york or wherever and so that location is really important and then the last thing is benefits they're concerned about making sure that they're covered medical dental health all of those 401k matches those things are important to the class of 2021
This year more than ever, which understandably so, we saw, I believe the number was 25 to 30% of grads didn't have a single internship or job in their college career, which makes sense because most people, freshman year, sophomore year, they're trying to get the hang of college, make sure they have good grades before they take on more.
And so this poor class is graduating and they didn't have the opportunities because most companies shut those down when COVID hit in their junior year.
And so the big thing here, to your point, is how do they build up the skills that they would have gotten in a job or an internship?
So temporary work tends to lead an economic recovery.
And so that's a great way for entry-level college graduates to find employment, to build those skills, and potentially to have a job offer at the end of that work, that assignment.
So that's number one, temporary work.
Number two is you can still take jobs and internships.
As more and more companies continue to open back up, these are available for college seniors.
So you don't have to jump right into full-time work.
You can take an unpaid internship.
You can volunteer with an organization to build up some of those skills.
There's also a surplus of ways to build your skills from the comfort of your own home.
You have LinkedIn Learning and Coursera and all of these different tools at your fingertips, some that cost money and some that are completely free.
And so grads should simultaneously, as they're going through finals and preparing to wrap up their senior year, they should also be looking at how can I continue to augment my skills to be able to put some additional things on my resume.
So by and large, I would say most hiring managers understand that if they're hiring someone from a recent graduating class, whether it be 2020 or 2021, that they're going to have gaps in experience and they won't have as many jobs or internships as previous cohorts of graduates.
And so it's to be expected.
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